Introduction: Facing Truth, Voicing Justice / Ifi Amadiume and Abdullahi An-Na'im -- 1. Memory, Truth and Healing / Wole Soyinka -- 2. The Politics of Memory: Biafra and Intellectual Responsibility / Ifi Amadiume -- 3. Biafran War Literature and Africa's Search for Social Justice / Akachi Ezeigbo -- 4. Social Movements Revisited: Mediation of Contradictory Roles / Abdullahi An-Na'im and Svetlana Peshkova -- 5. Post-Biafran Marginalization of the Igbo in Nigeria / Nnaemeka Ikpeze -- 6. Towards a Social History of Warfare and Reconstruction: The Nigerian/Biafran Case / Axel Harneit-Sievers and Sydney Emezue -- 7. Latin American Experiences of Accountability / Juan E. Mendez -- 8. Truth in a Box: The Limits of Justice through Judicial Mechanisms / Julie Mertus -- 9. Justice for Women Victims of Violence: Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide / Binaifer Nowrojee and Regan Ralph -- 10. The Truth According to the TRC / Mahmood Mamdani.

11. Conclusion: The Cause of Justice Behind Civil Wars / Francis M. Deng.